BJP Sweeps Uttarakhand, CM Harish Rawat Loses From Both His Seats

The BJP had a sweeping victory in Uttarakhand in the just-concluded assembly elections as the party, out of total 70 seats, won 57, far ahead of the Congress who won 11 seats.

Chief Minister Harish Rawat lost from both his seats- Haridwar Rural and  Kichha. He lost for BJP candidate Yatishwaranand in Haridwar Rural by 12400 votes. In Kichha, he lost for BJP’s Rajesh Shukla. BJP’s Harbansh Kapoor is leading from Dehradun Cantt,

BJP candidate Saurav Bahuguna, son of Vijay Bahuguna, won Sitarganj, defeating Malti Biswas of the Congress with a margin of 28,540 votes.

Deshraj Karanwal of the BJP emerged victorious in Jhabreda seat by defeating the Congress' Rajpal Singh with a margin of 2,253 votes.

BJP's Mukesh Singh Koli won Pauri seat by defeating Congress' Naval Kishore by 7,030 votes.

Furkan Ahmad of the Congress defeated BJP's Daibhagwan by 1,439 votes to win PiranKaliyar seat.

Kazi Mohammad Nizamuddin of the Congress defeated BSP's Sarbat Karim Ansari by 2,668 votes to win Manglore seat.

BJP's Pradip Batra won Roorkee seat, defeating Congress' Suresh Chandra Jain by a margin of 12,542 votes.

Yashpal Arya of the BJP won Bajpur by defeating Sunita Tamta of the Congress with a margin of 12,636 votes.

Mamta Rakesh of the Congress defeated BJP' Subodh Rakesh by 2,513 votes to win Bhagwanpur seat.

Suresh Rathore won Jwalapur seat by defeating Congress' S P Singh Engineer by a margin of 4,788 votes.

BJP's Chander Ram Das won Bageshwar, defeating Congress' Balkishan with a margin of 14,567 votes.

Congress candidate Harish Singh won Dharchula defeating BJP's Virender Singh Pal with a margin of 3,085 votes.

BJP's Vishan Singh Chufal defeated Independent Kishan Bhandari by 2368 votes in Didihat.

Gadarpur seat went to BJP's Arvind Pandey who defeated Congress' Rajendra Pal Singh with a margin of 14,106 votes. Sanjay Gupta of the BJP won Laksar seat by defeating Haji Tasleem Ahmad with a margin of 1604 votes.

Naveen Chandra Dumka of BJP defeating Congress's Harish Chandra Durgapal by 27,108 votes to win Lalkuwa seat.

Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion defeated Mufti Riyasat Ali of the BSP with a margin of 13,735 votes in Khanpur.

Surendra Singh Negi of the BJP won Karnaprayag seat, defeating Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri with a margin of 2,280 votes.

Balawant Singh Bhouriyal of the BJP won Kapkot seat defeating Lalit Farwan of the Congress by 5,982 votes.

Vijay Singh Panwar of BJP won Pratap Nagar, defeating Vikram Singh Negi of the Congress with a margin of 1,939 votes.

Rajkumar of the Congress won Purola seat, defeating BJP's Malchand by 1,013 votes.

Prem Chandra Aggarwal of the BJP won Rishikesh, defeating Rajpal Singh Kharola of the Congress by a margin of 14,801 votes.

BJP's Rajkumar Thukral won Rudrapur seat, defeating Tilak Raj Behar by a margin of 24,771 votes.

Diwan Singh Bisht of the BJP won Ramnagar defeating Ranjit Rawat of Congress with a margin of 8,611 votes.

BJP candidate Sahdev Singh Pundir won Sahaspur defeating Kishore Upadhaya of the Congress with a margin of 18,863 votes.

Munna Singh Chauhan of the BJP won Vikasnagar by defeating Navprabhat by a margin of 6,418 votes.

BJP's Kedar Singh won Yamunotri seat defeating Sanjay Dobhal of the Congress by 5,960 votes.

In Bhimtal seat, Independent candidate Ram Singh Kaira defeated BJP's Goviond Singh Bisht by a margin of 3,446 votes.

In Chakrata seat, Congress' Pritam Singh defeated Madhu Chauhan of BJP by a margin of 1,543 votes.

Harbans Kapoor of BJP won Dehradun Cantt seat, defeating Suryakant Dhasmana of Congress by a margin of 16,670 votes.

In Devprayag seat, BJP candidate Vinod Kandari defeated Independent candidate Diwakar Bhatt by a margin of 3,499 votes.

Mahesh Singh Negi of BJP won Dwarahat, defeating Madan Singh Bisht of the Congress by a margin of 6,593 votes.

Indira Hridayesh of Congress won Haldwani defeating Jogendrapal Singh Rautela of BJP by 6,557 votes.

Madan Kaushik of BJP won Haridwar defeating Brahmaswaroop Brahmachari by 35,927 votes.

Govind Singh Kunjwal won Jageshwar defeating Subhash Pandey of BJP by 399 votes.

Banshidhar Bhagat of BJP won Kaladhungi defeating Prakash Joshi of Congress by 20,597 votes.

Raghunath Singh Chauhan of BJP won Almora defeating Manoj Tewari of Congress by 5,379 votes.

Kailash Chandra Gahtori of BJP won Champawat defeating Hemesh Kharkwal of Congress by 17,360 votes.

Independent candidate Pritam Singh Pawar won Dhanolti defeating BJP's Narayan Singh Rana by 1,615 votes.

BJP's Trivendra Singh Rawat won Doiwala defeating Hira Singh Bisht of Congress by 24,869 votes.